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SAP HANA is an in-memory data platform that can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Organizations use the SAP HANA platform to analyze large volumes of data and develop and deploy applications in real time. The Dell EMC PowerMax enterprise storage family offers SAP enterprise customers trusted data services, along with simplicity and capacity, while delivering high performance and consistently low latency with guaranteed service levels.
This solution uses SAP HANA in a TDI deployment scenario on the PowerMax enterprise storage platform. The PowerMax family systems meet SAP HANA performance and functional requirements. They are certified by SAP, which means that customers can use PowerMax arrays for SAP HANA TDI deployments in a fully supported environment using their existing data center infrastructures.
The solution configuration recommendations in this guide are based on SAP requirements for high availability (HA) and on the performance test results that are required to meet SAP’s key performance indicators (KPIs) for SAP HANA TDI.